Honesty...can you handle it?

The Movie: A Few Good Men" The scene: The lawyer played by Tom Cruise yelled to the man on the stand played by Jack Nicholson "Give me the truth, I want the truth" The general yells back "You can't handle the truth"

The scene played out the way we treat truth these days. We doll it out when we think people can handle it and keep it to ourselves when it seems to harsh or it doesn't fit in line with how we want to portray ourselves.

It amazing when I see the magnitudes of lies and half-truths masquerading as niceties. Why don't you just tell her please by another shirt that one make you look pregnant (and you're so not!) Why let your friend buy the ugly shirt all because she is love with it and you want to be "nice" don't we see that niceness kills.

I'm not saying be cruel and say hurtful things. I'm just saying honesty is not morally right it is also highly efficient. You tell the truth..it hurts and true some people can't handle the truth. But as long as the intent isn't to bruise and hurt and malign the truth is the best policy.

I have my own policy with the truth. If telling someone the truth gives even an ounce of pleasure..I don't do it. It has crossed the line into cruel category that I don't want to live in.

I believe that if the world were to become more truth tellers we wouldn't be so bruised and battered when someone tells us the truth. Also we would know how to do it not keep the truth bottled up so much inside that when we finally get fed up it comes out in one angry sweep.

Don't keep it in...let the truth out.

Simple truth for today: Writing a paper at 1am is a bad idea...you wake up with a jumbled mess on your hands.